Black Maple

Black Maple is an online magazine where Black Canadian arts, culture, and history live! First founded as blackcanadianstudies.com, by Dr. Charmaine A.

Nelson, in 2012 with a relaunch as Black Maple coming soon. Black Maple is an innovative platform that explores and celebrates the uniqueness of Black Canada in academia, art, beauty, clothing, culture, film, food, health, personal care, and more.

11/17/2025

Reclaiming a Measles-Free Canada
-THE SELF-CARE CIRCLE November 12th, 2025

Canada is facing the return of endemic measles for the first time in over 25 years — a crisis driven by falling vaccination rates and the spread of anti-science rhetoric. With more than 5,000 cases this year and heartbreaking losses among infants, it’s a stark reminder of how deeply our well-being depends on one another. Protecting our communities means checking our vaccination status, safeguarding the most vulnerable, and sharing compassionate, evidence-based information. Together, we can close the immunity gaps and help Canada regain its measles-free status.

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https://blackmaplemagazine.com/articles/reclaiming-a-measles-free-canada/

The Guardian
The New York Times
CDC
NPR
Public Health Agency of Canada
YourAlberta (Government of Alberta)

At Black Maple Magazine, we pride ourselves on bringing you accurate and up-to-date information on all things health, well-being, and self-care, with an eye to what’s top of mind for...

11/12/2025

The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (2025)
- THE POP LIST November 1st, 2025

Hulu; in Canada on Disney+

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (2025) reimagines the 1992 thriller for a new generation, trading suburban paranoia for modern anxieties around motherhood, family, and childhood trauma. Directed by Michelle Garza Cervera and written by Micah Bloomberg and Amanda Silver, the film follows Caitlin Morales, a beleaguered working mother whose life unravels after hiring a seemingly perfect nanny with a dark past. Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Maika Monroe deliver gripping performances in this chilling exploration of manipulation and the blurred lines between care and control.

Link⬇️
https://blackmaplemagazine.com/articles/the-hand-that-rocks-the-cradle-2025/

Hulu
Disney+

When The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (2025) begins, a small blonde girl is standing stricken outside a burning house, watching an inferno engulf a home. More alarming still, a...

11/06/2025

he Blue Jays Fall Short in World Series Game Seven Against the LA Dodgers

THE POP LIST November 2nd, 2025

Fox Sports, MLB.TV; in Canada in English on Sportsnet and in French on TVA Sports

From coast to coast to coast, The Blue Jays gave us heart-stopping moments, record-breaking plays, and unforgettable grit. Although the World Series didn’t end the way we hoped, their passion, unity, and fight lit up the nation. We thank them for an incredible 2025 season — they’ll be back, stronger than ever. 💪🏾🇨🇦

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https://blackmaplemagazine.com/articles/the-blue-jays-fall-short-in-world-series-game-seven-against-the-la-dodgers/

MLB
FOX Sports
Sportsnet
TVA Sports
Toronto Blue Jays
Los Angeles Dodgers
Vladimir Guerrero Jr

Sometimes we do things the easy way, and at other times, the hard way. After the Jays’ seven game triumph over the Seattle Mariners, they decided on the hard way...

10/25/2025

Toronto Blue Jays head back to World Series with an Entire Nation Behind Them
-THE POP LIST October 21st, 2025

Fox Sports, MLB.TV; in Canada in English on Sportsnet and in French on TVA Sports

The Toronto Blue Jays are heading back to the World Series — and this time they’ve got an entire nation behind them. From the heart of downtown Toronto at the iconic Rogers Centre with fans coast-to-coast-to-coast, the energy is electric. After a nail-biting Game Seven win against the Seattle Mariners, the Jays are ready to take on the LA Dodgers and chase championship glory once again.

Let’s go, Canada — it’s time to believe in blue! 💙⚾️

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https://blackmaplemagazine.com/articles/toronto-blue-jays-head-back-to-world-series-with-an-entire-nation-behind-them/

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MLB
FOX Sports
Sportsnet
TVA Sports
Toronto Blue Jays
Dave Winfield
David Ortiz
Alex Rodriguez
Derek Jeter
Max Scherzer

What separates the Toronto Blue Jays from the other MLB teams? Well, besides their home in the remarkable Rogers Centre (originally the Skydome) situated at the base of one of...

10/14/2025

Abbott Elementary (2021- )
- THE POP LIST October 12th, 2025

ABC; Hulu

School’s back in session and so is the laughter!

Abbott Elementary returns for its fifth season with more heart, hilarity, and chaos than ever. Created by the brilliant Quinta Brunson—who also stars as the eternally optimistic Janine—the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning mockumentary takes us back to the halls of Willard R. Abbott Elementary, where overworked teachers and a delightfully unfiltered principal face the joys and absurdities of public education.

From staff room antics to moments of heartfelt connection, this season proves once again why Abbott Elementary remains the gold standard of modern sitcoms — equal parts sharp, warm, and laugh-out-loud funny.

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https://blackmaplemagazine.com/articles/abbott-elementary-2021/

ABC
Hulu
Emmys / Television Academy
Golden Globes
Critics Choice Awards
Screen Actors Guild Awards
NAACP Image Awards
Sanford and Son
Good Times
And Just Like That
Modern Family
Quinta Brunson
Sheryl Lee Ralph
Ashanti Official
Saturday Night Live
Los Del Rio
Vince Staples
Leslie Odom Jr.
Brian Scolaro
Tommy Bechtold
Camden Coley

We already knew that Abbott Elementary was hilarious from its previous 4 seasons. This award-winning sit-com (Emmys, Golden Globes, and Critics’ Choice, Screen Actors Guild, and NAACP Image Awards) is...

10/08/2025

Chief of War
-THE POP LIST October 4th, 2025

Apple TV+

If you think there’s nothing worth watching on screens big or small — think again! Chief of War, created by Jason Momoa and Thomas Pa’a Sibbett, is a sweeping, visually stunning Apple TV+ historical saga that reimagines the unification of the Hawaiian Islands through an indigenous lens. Blending power, prophecy, and resistance, it delivers the epic scope of history with the intimacy of lived experience. From ritual and warfare, to betrayal, love, and survival across oceans, this series reminds us that stories of sovereignty and justice are never just about the past.

Read the full article below: Spoilers alert!
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https://blackmaplemagazine.com/articles/chief-of-war/

Apple TV
Hulu
Ao o Hinepehinga
Mainei Kinimaka
Sisa Grey
TK Tuhaka
Roimata Fox
Moses Goods - Actor & Storyteller
Branscombe Richmond

For those who profess that there is nothing to watch on TV, we boldly say, you’re dead wrong! In fact, the problem is the reverse, there’s too much to watch....

10/05/2025

Ruth & Boaz (2025)
- THE POP LIST September 28th, 2025

Netflix September 26th, 2025

From producers Tyler Perry and DeVon Franklin, and director Alanna Brown, comes a tender modern retelling of the Book of Ruth — a story of faith, love, and redemption. Set between the rhythm of hip hop and the quiet beauty of a Tennessee vineyard, it follows a young woman and a man whose shared belief in God leads them from heartbreak to healing, proving that divine love still moves in mysterious ways.

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https://blackmaplemagazine.com/articles/ruth-boaz-2025/

Netflix
DeVon Franklin
Tyler Perry
Serayah
Tyler Lepley
Babyface
Jermaine Dupri
Lecrae

The new Netflix movie, Ruth and Boaz (2025) opens with a line from an eighteenth-century hymn that many will recognize but not necessarily attribute to the English poet William Cowper:...

10/05/2025

Highest 2 Lowest (2025)
-THE POP LIST September 28th, 2025

In theatres August 15; Apple TV, Amazon Prime

Spike Lee’s latest joint, Highest 2 Lowest, starring Denzel Washington, is a gripping morality tale where wealth, race, and power collide against the dazzling backdrop of New York City. The film exposes the unsettling truth that not all lives are valued equally and asks how far one man will go to protect his legacy, money, and family. Both a love letter to NYC and a sharp critique of its inequalities, this is Lee in quintessential form.

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https://blackmaplemagazine.com/articles/highest-2-lowest-2025/

Apple TV
Amazon Prime
Rick Fox
La Chanze
ASAP Rocky
Anthony Ramos
The Johnson Collection

The newest Spike Lee Joint lifts off with an uncharacteristic song, an anthem of old Hollywood and Broadway, “Oh, What and Beautiful Mornin’ ” from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s famous 1943...

10/05/2025

Andrew Jackson’s Little Burgundy Exhibition at the McCord Museum, Montreal
-FEATURES, September 24th, 2025
By Audrey Arthurs

In his Evolving Montreal commission at the McCord Stewart Museum, Black British-Canadian photographer Andrew Jackson turns his lens on Little Burgundy — once the vibrant heart of Black Montreal, nicknamed Harlem of the North. Through striking portraits, artifacts, and juxtapositions, Jackson challenges Eurocentric narratives, refutes racist imagery, and reconnects the past to the present. His exhibition foregrounds community memory, resilience, and creativity in a neighbourhood deeply marked by jazz, activism, and urban renewal.

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https://blackmaplemagazine.com/articles/andrew-jacksons-little-burgundy-exhibition-at-the-mccord-museum-montreal/

Musée McCord Stewart Museum
Light Work
Canadian Encyclopedia
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Montreal
United Church Montreal
SDC Les Quartiers du Canal
CBC
Oscar Peterson
Global News
CNN
Historical Society
Museum for Human Rights
Museum
Vancouver Heritage Foundation
's Alley Society
of New Brunswick

By Audrey Arthurs Little Burgundy- Evolving Montreal (February 21 – September 28th, 2025) As part of the Evolving Montreal series, black British-Canadian photographer Andrew Jackson was commissioned by the...

09/22/2025

The Paper (2025)
THE POP LIST, September 13th, 2025, Black Maple

Peacock; in Canada on Amazon Prime

The Paper( 2025) from Greg Daniels (The Office) and Michael Koman (Saturday Night Live) comes a sharp new mockumentary comedy set inside the struggling newsroom of the Toledo Truth Teller.

Quirky staff, a bumbling new editor, budget cuts, and volunteer “journalists” with zero experience collide in a hilarious, heartfelt story about reviving local news. Think The Office vibes, but with newspapers, clickbait, and chaos.

Read the full article: Beware of spoilers!⬇️
https://blackmaplemagazine.com/articles/the-paper-2025/

Peacock TV
Prime Video
Ricky Gervais
Sabrina Impacciatore
Alex Edelman
Ramona Young
Laprete
John Krasinski
Jenna Fischer
Rainn Wilson
Angela Kinsey
Mindy Kaling

When the white, redhead Ned Sampson (Domhnall Gleeson) enters the lobby of the building that houses the Toledo Truth Teller, he pauses to tell the unseen people behind the camera...

09/15/2025

News From UMass Amherst

Children’s books from students of Charmaine A. Nelson’s Visual Culture of Slavery course published online
-UMass Amherst, September 9, 2025,

Black Maple Magazine has digitally published an open access collection of 18 original illustrated children’s books about slavery in Canada and the U.S. North created by the students of Charmaine A. Nelson’s Spring 2025 UMass Amherst art history course, The Visual Culture of Slavery.

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https://www.umass.edu/news/article/childrens-books-students-charmaine-nelsons-visual-culture-slavery-course-published

Black Maple
Charmaine A. Nelson
Slavery North
UMass Amherst Department of History of Art and Architecture
College of Humanities & Fine Arts at UMass Amherst
UMass Amherst

Black Maple Magazine has digitally published an open access collection of 18 original illustrated children’s books about slavery in Canada and the U.S. North created by the students of Slavery North founder and Provost Professor Charmaine A. Nelson’s art history course.

09/11/2025

News From Black Maple Magazine:

We’re proud to launch a new feature: Children’s Books on Slavery in Canada and the US North.

For too long, the histories of enslaved Black people in northern, cold-climate regions have been underrepresented and overlooked in academic scholarship, adult non-fiction, and children’s literature. This project began in our fearless leader, Prof. Charmaine A. Nelson’s UMass Amherst Spring 2025 course The Visual Culture of Slavery, where under her guidance, students created original illustrated books to educate children about the histories of slavery in Canada and the US North.

These powerful works tackle four central themes:

The Journey from Africa
Enslaved Biography
Enslaved Children
Slave Resistance

In an era when some seek to erase or sanitize these histories, these books are a welcome contribution to knowledge and justice, ensuring that future generations can access rigorous and accurate accounts through age-appropriate materials.

👉 Explore the collection now on Black Maple Magazine.
https://blackmaplemagazine.com/research/slavery-research/sowing-history/

Black Maple
Slavery North
Charmaine A. Nelson
Slavery North
UMass Amherst Department of History of Art and Architecture
College of Humanities & Fine Arts at UMass Amherst
UMass Amherst

At Black Maple we are elated to add nine trophies from the 20th Annual Davey Awards and five from the 19th Annual w3 awards (2024) to our growing list of accolades including an Anthem Award, six Communicator Awards, and recognition as a Webby Honoree.

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